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Cleveland, O., April 12.— Cleveland Flo- 

 rists' Club, Hotel Hollenden, Club Room 

 B. Frauk Friedley, Sec. 



Rochester, X. Y., April 12. — Rochester 

 Florists' Association, 95 Main St. East. H. 

 B. Stringer, Sec, 47 Stone St. 



New York, N. Y,, April 12. — New York 

 Florists' Club, Grand Opera House Bldg., 

 Eigbtli Ave. and Twenty-third St. John 

 Young, Sec, 53 W. 28tb St., New York. 



Ilolyoke, Mass., April 13. — Holyoke and 

 Northampton Florists' and Gardeners' 

 Club. 



Newport, B. I., April 13. — Newport Hor- 

 ticultural Society. Music Hall. Wm. Gray, 

 Sec, Bellevue Ave., Newport. 



Cliicago, 111., .*pril 14. — Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Union No. 10615, 232 North Clark 

 St. Louis Heidtman, Sec, 3610 N. Rich- 

 mond St. 



Morristown, N. J., .4pril 14. — Morris 

 County Gardeners' and Florists' Society, 

 Masonic Hall. Ed. Reagan, Sec, 1.39 Madi- 

 son Ave. 



Newark, N. J., April 15. — Essex County 

 Florists' Club. Kreuger Auditorium, ffi 

 Belmont Ave. John Crossley, Sec, 37 

 Belleville, Ave. 



New Orleans, La., April 15. — New Orleans 

 Horticultural Society, Association of Com- 

 merce Bldg. C. R. Panter, Sec, 2320 Cal- 

 houn St., New Orleans. 



Tacoma, Wash., April 15. — Tacoma Flo- 

 rists' Association, Maccabee Hall, 11th and 

 C Sts. F. H. Atchison, Sec, South 50th 

 and East F. St., Tacoma. 



Detroit, >luh., .April 19.— Detroit Florists' 

 Club, Bemb Floral Hall, 153 Bates St., R. 

 II. Wells, Sec, S27 Canfleld Ave. 



Montreal, Que., April 19. — Montreal Gar- 

 deners' and Rlorists' Club, Montreal Floral 

 Exchange, 140 Mansfield St. W. H. Horo- 

 bin. Sec, 2S3 Marquette St. 



Boston, Mass., April 20. — Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston, Horticultural 

 Hall. W. N. Craig, Sec, Faulkner Farm, 

 Brookline, Mass. 



£,ake Geneva, Wis., April .20.— Lake 

 Geneva Gardeners' and Foremen's Associa- 

 tion, Horticultural Hall. Wm. H. Grif- 

 fiths, Sec, Lake Geneva. 



Minneapolis, Minn., April 20. — Minnesota 

 State Flori-sts' Association. Gust. Malm- 

 quist, Sec, Fair Oaks. Minneapolis, Minn. 



Toronto, Ont., April 20. — Gardeners' and 

 Florists' of Ontario, St. George's Hall, 

 Elm St. Geo. Douglas, Sec, 189 Merton 

 St., Toronto. 



Hartford. Conn., .\pril 23. — The Connec- 

 ticut Horticultural Society, County Bldg. 

 Alfred Dixon, Sec, 25 Wilcox St., Wethers- 

 fleld, Conn. 



Dobbs Ferry, N. Y'., April 24. — Dobbs 

 Ferry Horticultural Society, Odd Fellows 

 Hall. B. Harms, Sec, Dobbs Ferry. 



Newark, N. J., April 25. — Wein, Obst & 

 Gartenbau Verein, 15 Newark St. Peter 

 Caille, Sec, 111 Avon Ave., Newark. 



Baltimore, Md., April 26. — Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Baltimore, Florists' Ex- 

 change Hall, St. Paul and Franklin Sts. 

 Noah F. Flitton. Sec, Gwynn Falls Park, 

 Sta. F., Baltimore 



Norwich Conn., .April 26. — New London 

 County Horticultural Society, Buckingham 

 Memorial. Frank 11. Allen, Sec, 321 Main 

 St., Norwich, Conn. 



Providence, R. I., .April 26. — Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island, Swartz 

 Hall, 96 Westminster St. Wm. E. Chap- 

 pell, Sec, 333 Branch Ave., Providence, B. I. 



Newport, R. I., -April 27. — Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society, Music Hall. Win. Gray, 

 Sec, Bellevue Ave., Newport. 



San Francisco, Cal.. June 22-24. Ameri- 

 can Seed Trade Association. 



Detroit, Mich., June 23-25. — Annual con- 

 vention of Amer. Ass'n of Nurserymen. 



Fort AVorth, Tex., July 6-7.— Texas State 

 Florists' meeting. 



PITTSBURGH EASTER SHOWS. 



The twentieth Easter display of the 

 Phipps Conservatory, Schenley Park, 

 is one of surpassing loveliness, which, 

 throughout the week has been as a 

 shrine for worsshippers of the beauti- 

 ful. While all the exhibits were ex- 

 ceptionally fine, the exquisitely massed 

 lilies, roses, orchids and French hy- 

 drangeas were perhaps the more ap- 

 pealing from the artistic point of view. 

 In the House of Lilies one could al- 

 most have imagined oneself in the 

 beautiful graveyard of Maeterlinck's 

 "Blue Bird," where the gravestones 

 are transformed into lilies, and little 

 Tyltyl reverently utters, "There are no 

 dead." However, to the masses of vis- 

 itors, the special attractions were the 

 miniature and Holland gardens. In 

 the former bloomed the old-fashioned 

 columbine. Star of Bethlehem, Crown 

 Imperial, Glory of the Snow and other 

 favointes of long ago, surrounding a 

 typical gentleman's country place, com- 

 plete even to a tiny pond in which 

 - sported a young "September Mom." 

 In the Holland garden, which fronted 

 a Dutch thatched cottage on which 

 saucily perched the traditional stork, 

 was a gorgeous showing of tulips. To 

 view this Easter display, "free to the 

 public," one is almost convinced of a 

 Gospel of Nature and Art with Super- 

 intendent George W. Burke, of the Bu- 

 reau of Parks, and Foreman John W. 

 Jones, of the Phipps Conservatory, as 

 missionaries. 



The crowds of visitors to the North 

 Side Park Conservatory which (as de- 

 scribed last week), prematurely com- 

 menced on Palm Sunday, continued 

 throughout the week, viewing the fine 

 display supervised by Superintendent 

 James Moore. 



The H. J. Heinz conservatory at 

 "Greenlawn" was another center of at- 

 traction in the East End. For this oc- 

 casion, the show house proper, which 

 was completed only last year, was con- 

 verted into a sunken garden effect, 

 with an electric fountain playing in 

 the center and a rockery at one end. 

 In addition to quantities of Holland 

 bulbs, orchids, sweet peas, genistas 

 and other hothouse flowers, A. A. 

 Leach, the young supervisor, has potted 

 cherries, apples, pears and plums in 

 flower. 



New "Vork Florists' Bowling Club, 



Thursday, April 1st. 



P. Jacobson ](iK 155 158 



J. Miesem 215 191 203 



H. C. Rledel 193 188 206 



J. Fenrich 161 193 ISD 



A, J. Guttman 156 172 151 



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 it in that way of late. The neat style 

 of growth of the improved form is well 

 shown in our cover illustration, the 

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